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Monday, October 11, 2010

I Chose the Road Less Traveled By

Oh, my goodness!!! Eeek!!! I am finally, finally, finally playing along with one of my favourite challenges!! I am so excited to play with Sankari and Brooke and the girls over at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge this week. I love movies and making cards inspired by them is so fun and so creative!! When I saw this week's movie...all other card projects were put aside to make sure I did not miss the deadline...Dead Poet's Society is one of my all time favourite movies. If it's on t.v. I will watch it, period. Robin Williams and all the young actors were outstanding and the themes of the film are so moving. I can't list all my favourite parts and quotes...too many...but one that stands out is when Robin Williams says, "we're not laughing at you, we're laughing near you." The poetry, the passion for teaching...this movie is so inspiring to me as a teacher, though I teach 7 year olds (hehe). I chose a quote from my favourite Robert Frost poem (and bonus...I have a stamp of it!! LOL). I was also inspired by the colours of the season and some school notebook paper. The requirement was "felt" and the yellow on the flower is harvest gold felt from Papertrey :) I love stamping a background with SU's Autumn Splendor. It's such a fabulous set :) Well, that's about it...please come and check out this challenge...it really is so much fun!!!

Great card Maureen!! Love that leaf background and the quote! I love that movie too!! So much so, it likely influenced my career choice--high school English teacher. In fact, when I start my poetry unit with my senior level kids, I have often had them do what Mr. Keating has his students do--stand on top of their desks--to "strive to take a new point of view"! They think I'm crazy, but it totally helps loosen them up to approach some challenging literature. I remind them that they will often have to look at things from different perspectives . . . any way, enough rambling . . . I'd love to play along with this challenge, but alas, I must hit the pile of marking that's been sitting in my bag all weekend!

I am a St. Patrick's day baby with a passion for card making. When I'm not in the studio, I'm a Grade One elementary teacher, happy wife to Tony, proud mom to Jake, loving Grandmoe to Ashlynn and Beckham, and graduate in the Masters of Education program at Gonzaga University.